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Audio Titlesets:
Since version 0.98 you may create 'Audio only' titlesets. Select 'Audio
Titleset' from the 'Insert' menu and place the crosshair cursor on the
main menu where you want to have the start button. In the following
dialog you can select MP2/AC3 files, edit artist/album/title texts and
select background images. If you stick accurately to the 'usual'
filename pattern:
File name = 'artist - album - track - titel.xxx' with xxx = MP2 or MPA
or
AC3 (or WAV with MuxMan),
the strings for artist/album/title can be assumed from the filename.
The track number may be removed or added as part of the title. If the
option 'Use file name pattern' is switched off, or GfD cannot interpret
the filename, the whole filename is used as title name. In this case
you may preset the artist and album strings BEFORE you add the titles
or edit them afterwards (either line by line or with the 'Set for all'
option). Background pictures can be used in the usual formats (bmp,
gif,
jpg, png). The audio files must be already DVD conformal (48 kHz) and
within one Audio titleset uniformly (either AC3 or MP2 - using MuxMan
also WAV with 48 or 96 kHz; same number of
channels...). Within one Audio titleset you can be insert a title only
once. Example:
The title sequence corresponds to that in which the titles were added,
you may change it however with the up/down arrow buttons. If you
prefer a more 'random' order, you can click on the 'Rnd' button, which
'sorts' the titles randomly.
The layout can be individually set per audio Titleset. A click on
'Layout' opens a dialog, where the colors, positions and character
fonts for the artist/album/title texts can be adjusted. You
can save your favorite layout in the Def. Settings tab
"AudioTS".
The 'Audio titleset name' is used as button text
for the main menu.
The audio files are automatically checked when you insert them, the
info is shown in the last column (scroll right, or smaller the other
columns). If a file has the wrong (or not interpretable) properties,
the 'note' turns red:
Remark: MuxMan is very strict concerning the standards. Therefore all
properties of the audio files within one Audio titleset must be the
same: bitrate, number of channels (no mix of mono/stereo/joint
stereo files)... This is currently not checked by GfD, you have to take
care for yourself.
This infos are not stored. If you reload the dialog, the info column is
empty, but you can reread it with the 'Info' button (just below the
Layout button)
Create Audiotitleset with Chapters/Titles:
For dvdauthor as authoring engine you may select to create the
audiofiles as either own titles or chapters. Using 'Titles', the
timecode is reset after each audiofile. Using 'Chapters' the audiofiles
are connected and the audio titleset has a continuous timecode (you can
nevertheless access each title individually from a menu). As in the
official standard only 99 titles are allowed for a DVD (although many
players have no problems with more than 100), I would recommend to use
'Chapters'. For MuxMan only the 'Chapters' mode is implemented.
Edit Pre/Post Command:
Starts the VM-command editor. There you may change the pre and post
commands for the audio titleset (only for the whole, NOT for each title
individually)
Menu for start of individual titles
For menu creation load the appropriate
titleset menu and drag & drop the individual titles (like
chapters) on the background (or use the 'Grid menu layout' function).
To achieve 'meaningful' buttons, select text buttons in the Def.
Settings, set the button
defaults to no text in 'default text
for chapter buttons' and mark 'Add Time/Title' (if required also
number).
Technically GfD produces a png file (bmp for MuxMan) with the
background picture and the texts for artist/album/title. This
png file is encoded with png2yuv/mpegenc to a single frame m2v file,
which is finally multiplexed with the audio file to the MPG file using
mplex. As mplex doesn't add navigation packs (except the first one) for
'single frame' MPEGs with a (longer) audio file, insnav (a small
commandline program from C. Patel) is used to add
these additional navigation packs as a postprocessing step. Using
MuxMan this long way round isn't necessary, as MuxMan creates the vob
files directly from the BMP images and the audiofile during the DVD
creation process. This is much faster and uses less recources,
therefore I highly recommend using MuxMan for pure audio DVDs.
Limits:
- 96 titles per Audio titleset